St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-10
Three of These Letters Said to Be in
Bradley's Handwriting and the
Others in Typewriter.

Special to the Globe.
FARGO, Jan. 9.-The letters which the
prosecution endeavored to introduce in the
Hughes abortion case, and which were ruled
out by the court upon the ground that they
consisted Of admissions by DR.. Bradley,
made after the contamination Of the alleged
conspiracy, and, therefore, not binding OH
Hughes are given below. The following
letter is said to have been given by DR..
Bradley to a messenger to be delivered to
Sol Robinson, hotelkeeper in Lisbon. and
by the messenger delivered to Prosecuting
Attorney Buttz, in whose possession this,
as well as all the other so-calIed Bradley
letters, are at present.
A REFERENCE TO ada"
Minor, DAk,. Dec. Is, ISIS. Robinson,
Es1., Lisbon OAK Dear Sir: Will you please
post the within inclos ed letters for me?
could not get them off in the mail, and am
anxious to have them delivered. Drop me
letter and give me all the news. / am, re-
specially, ADA.
P. 5. You remember "Ada," do you not?
In this letter was inclosed the following
epiStles: the first i'll sealed envelope, ad-
dressed
~ X. NJ. DAVIS, Lisbon OAK.
Minor, Oak, Dec. IL, 1S84.-Dear Sir:
Your bill of Sl35 remains unpaid. A few
days since 1 wrote you letter, but on pur-
pose addressed it to your wife. L expected
you would take that letter from the office,
read it and destroy it. You very likely did
so. That was merely warning. The next
one wrote after this one will get there, I as
sure you. if have to carry it myself. You
and Hughes have both played me for a sucker
and l will admit succeeded very well SO far,
but the table will change. You will pay me
for my services, and soon, too, or will wage
you such an aggressive warfare that you will
wish you had needed my warning. l mean
business, and / think you know me well
enough to know better than to dare me on.
If you for one moment knew of the plot I
have in view you would settle with me at
once and have everything go CT smoothly
rather than to wage Inc a warfare
which cannot but end some one
i'll the penitentiRry. Furthermore, this
is the last appeal l make to you by let
ter. At my earliest opportunity shall begin
proceedings that will break up your family
and end on in the penitentiury. 1 gave an
order on J. j. Hughes and told the man that
he did not know what meant by it. as he
never owed me anything. As told you be-
fore, | shall hold you responsible for Hughes
bill.
Bill for services rendered you 80. 49,. SIS 90
Bill for services rendered H.......... 60 90
AS soon can start for Lisbon mean to
do so, and the first thing l do after my ar
rival there will be to go directly to your wife
and deliver little bit of news, but in the
meantime l shall prepare her for it's rCcap-
lion by sending her u letter by Il sure mes
senger.
l considered you my friend! and q man!
but you have done me one of the dirtiest
tricks that could be conceived of. But by the
powers Of the eternal OF! ! you shall right
-
at you now for more than two months,
and if this thing is carried
little too far to suit you, you will
have no one to blame but yourself ! Thus
far have received only S15 and have paid out
more than that in expenses.
The next letter your wife receives from me
will not be so easily explained by yon as the
first one was. Perhaps she will not be as
willing TO- you 10 pay other ladies' bills as
her own ! Z!
l have said enoughl
Will never appeal TO you again by letter ! !
l cannot any longer consider you my
friend
Pay me or look to your laurels J!
Without fear or favor-I ain
Determined to the death ~
TO MISS HIGHLAND.
With this letter is inclosed one addressed
to Miss Sarah Highland, Lisbon, OAK,
reading as follows:
/ have heard to-day that either you or one of
your sisters told to some girl in Lisbon that
produced an abortion on you, and l also
heard that my enemies were determined TO
have both you and me arrested as soon us
some certain person i'll Lisbon that has been
visiting you goes home. Perhaps the person
told young Mrs Ellsworth. l rather
think so, at least. Now. hope that neither
you nor your sister will tell such a thing
You must not be scared into telling such
story as that, about either YOU or myself.
Perhaps YOU don't know what the conse-
Gueuce, will be. If such thing as an arrest
Is made you can't tell where 1t viii stop, and
it may result in both OF US going 10 the peni-
Tertiary, and that though we both may be in
pccent. | have some enemies who are bound
to ruin me, either by foul or fair
play, and they would not care if they
ruined an innocent girl, so long rs they got
me in their power. l understand they have
been making offers to certain young ladies in
Lisbon that if they would tell them Of Il case
where l have produced an abortion they
would give them $500. Now, any young lady
wi o would do that, even if it were So would
be ruined for life. She would have to face
the course Of the courts for several months
anyway, and mig bit go 10 the peniientiary in
the bargain, though innocent. / would like
so have gone to Lisbon tonight, but could
not get away. / mean to come and see you, if
can get away ] hope you are Quite we'll
heard you were sick. ! very sorry, in
deed | have enemies III this country who
are bending every energy to ruin me, and
they are making everything of your sick
ness that they can do to do it, so
be careful and not get me into trouble and
ruin Yourself. i told you would write to
you when j. J. Hu hes settled with me, and
so l will. but he bias proven himself scoun-
drel. But l Will bring. him TO time in way
ne doesn't think of. If am put TO trouble
half of Lisbon will be brought into il, for l
have friends there as well as enemies Ny
enemies there have started various stories
about me- and said that / said this and that
solely for the purpose Of making enemies OF
INV friends. and getting certain cues to SUP
press their acts. am working at my end
For instance, l ha heard that ] said l slept
with YOUR sister While there in Lisbon. Now
can't believe for one moment that you will
give any credit 10 any such story. and the
ones who are circulating any such Story are
Offering direct insult TO you. and besides that,
xhey lie. Please write me Mt once and let me
know how things stand. Accept my regards
for yourself and sister. Believe me true till
you know yourself that / am false. have a